Biography
Jindřich Feld (February 19, 1925, Prague – July 8, 2007, Prague) was a Czech composer of classical music.
Feld was born into a musical family, his father a well-known professor of violin at the Prague Conservatory. His mother was a violinist. While he studied violin and viola with his father, he began studying composition early, studying at the Prague Conservatory and then graduating from the Academy of Music (HAMU) in 1952. In this year he also earned his doctorate from the Charles University in Prague, with degrees in musicology, aesthetics and philosophy.
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He produced a great abundance of work, including compositions of great diversity ranging from an opera for children (The Postman's Tale, 1956) to partitions with full scores for orchestra, as well as the cantata Cosmae Chronica Boemorum, 1988) in the tradition of Dvorák on a mediaeval text. His Symphony n°3, "The End of the Century" was premiered in Prague in 1998.
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